Re: creating a game ... ? (help!)
> Ah, now we're getting somewhere
> You began by asking us a question not unlike "How may I navigate this
> 747 from Sidney to London?", when what you really should have been asking
> is "why don't those airplane thingys fall from the sky?"
But I don't need to know /how/ a plane flies in order to fly one ...
Can you drive a car? How did you learn how to do that?
> Given the nature of your question, you shouldn't be surprised if people
> assumed you have considerable knowledge of the topic.
Err, but I said I was a Newbie, which should have set off several klaxon's
and some flashing red lights, and caused people to start pointing and laughing
...
> You need to start with very simple things. Once you clearly understand
> *each* of them, then you put them together (hundreds of thousands of them, in
> the
> case of the game you describe) to make the complete program.
*nods* yees, I'm trying to find out what the hundreds of thousands of
"them" are, and how to put them together ...
> The first step is always this: write a "Hello World" program.
Derek Parnell (G'day mate!) has already shown me how to do that ...
> Sorry if this sounds patronising, but many people have trouble even getting
> that far. Perhaps they don't use a plain text editor, or because they
> can't open a DOS box, or because they don't have euphoria installed correctly,
>
> or any number of other mistakes. It's important to find out if the above
> works before going on, because all those steps are essential to writing and
> running any program, In any language.
Well, once I'd downloaded Euphoria, I had a look at the manual, I said "wuh?"
(very confusing that manual) I tried looking for something easier to understand,
and couldn't find anything. I tried opening Euphoria editor and poking around
there and that didn't help.
I knew writing a program would take hours and hours - that's not a problem
I don't have a life ... If I'd known I was going to have to turn my brain
inside out in order to learn how to write the appropriate program, I wouldn't
have bothered. Evidently the [obviously scant] knowledge I had of BASIC
isn't helping me here ...
Sorry if that sounds rude, but when something states that it's easy
to use and requires no previous experience I'd expect something that
I can switch on and start using within a few hours, rather like when I
buy a VCR. And I /never/ need to use the manual to do that!
* batteries not included
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